A Cloud Storage Issue May Have Exposed L.A. County Residents' Data

Government Technology: A nonprofit hub for health, human and social services in the nation’s most populous county may have exposed years of information and an estimated 3.5 million records of interactions with residents by storing data in the cloud.

It’s unclear whether bad actors accessed the information collected by 211 Los Angeles County, which included an estimated 396,000 contact emails and 33,000 Social Security numbers, but the data has since been protected and its access restricted.

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